Image Optimization, Its a Must or Not for SEO ?

Friday, March 14th, 2008

As we all know, Search Engine crawler can’t read image. How to make image on our website are readable ? Alt tags can help us to do that. Alt Tags is useful for optimizing image on your site. But is it a must or not ?

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If you run a website with contains a lot of image, Yes alt tags is a must. Because when search engine crawler crawl your site, you give crawler something to read. It is a part of image optimization. There’s several things to do to optimize the image on your site. ie: use keywords on the image file name. Do not use empty space (this my image.jpg). Better use : this-my-image.jpg. Use keyword on Alt tags to (alt=”this my image keyword”). Remeber : make it natural so it won’t look spammy.

If you wanna know when alt tags is not a must, read it here.

And if you use Wordpress as your blog machine, you may want to read how to optimize wordpress

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